Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 28, 1887, Page 5

BUSINESS MEN AWAHENINC, Khe Unfalr Dealing of the Union Pacific Oauses Another Prot est. - AN APPEAL TO THESTATE BOARD Clam Bakers at Shogo isiand—Lin- ovln's Knights of the Diamond —Frohibitionists Proparing For Aetive Work. ’lrnoM THE BEE'S LINCOLN BUBRAU.] There was filed with the state board of transportation yesterday a complaint from a Wood River, Neb., firm against the Union Pacific and the extortionate rates of that company, The filing of the complaint is an evidence that the busines men are beginning to awaken to the BYyS- tematized robbery practiced against them and speak out for themselves. The com- ]lrllnlnt in full is as tollows: ollister & Howard, complainants, vs. the :he“l;llgll‘nt‘n };:gms 'L(nl.;m%s liompnny. re- ore the board of transporta- t\[‘:nrnf the ll‘nle of Nebraska, e our complainants for cause of complaint against the Union Pacitic Railroad v.‘om‘x’mu)‘. respondent, allege and say: 1. That your complainants are a firm or co- 2;1::9:12‘ )l‘""ll sdlin the u‘la of hardware «ricultural implements in th Wood River, Neb, 4 ekl 2. That the said Union Pacific Railway, re- spondent, {s a corporation duly organized under and by virtue of an act of congress of the United States of America, and that said respondent maintains and operates a line of railway "Imuihl d across the state of Nebraska, having its eastern terminus at the city of Council 3luffs, Ia. 3. Your comblainants further allee that the local rates charged b¥ said respondent for the transportation of goods, wares and merchandise, are unjust, unreasonable, ex- tortionate, oppressive and excessive, and are 100 hi:h, as shown by the attached table of eom:%mllva local rates, giving the figures for iles west from the city of Lincoln on said railroad, as compared with the local traflic in Iowa and Minnesota; that trattic on the line of said rallway as therein set forth are unjust, unreasonable, extortionate and oppressive, and should be reduced 363¢ per cent of the Fn-senl rate, ‘The said table herein set forth exhibits the local rates on said Union Pacilic railroad for the distance of 300 miles as aforesaid, and is A copy of the printed and published tariffs of sald line of railway, respondent herein, and 18 made a part of this complaint. 4. And further complaining against the Union Pacitic railroad company, complain- ants state and charge the followinz facts against said rallroad, respondent, viz. That said railway company, respondent, collects, demands and receives unjust, un- reasonable, extortionate and oppressive rates from the city of Grand Island, Neb., to points on the said line of railway, as com- pared with the rates cnarged, demanded, collected and received for its transportation of freight from Omaha, thereby discriminat- ing A‘.Mnn Grand [sland and’ local voints situated on said nuw?‘ ‘The said rates quoted, charged, demanded, collected and received from Grand Island to points on said railroad are compared and shown in the following table, with the rates charged, demanded, collected and received for like and contemporaneous service for the same distance from the city of Omaha: 123 6AB D E Grand Island to kd 9 Woad 22171613 9 9 8 T4 7% 6 From Omaha to Millard, 20 m's.17 1515121010 8 8% 8% 6 Difference tavo Mmah o 43 .82 27 23 20 16 16 13 10'5 10% © to Fre- mmont, 46 m's..26 24 22 19 15 16 10 8% 8% 6 6311113 2 2 QGrand Tsland ook, o 7 40 36 31 26 23 17 135 18 7 t lor, 76 miles. 40353023 2001814 14 7 Omaha to Dun- oan, 99 miles. MUUW/BJ1T 1T TH In favor of Omah North Platte, 138 miles 16255474273 2420 20 10% Omaha to Wood River, 160 m's.02 56 60 44 40 31 2219 19 8% Difference In fa- . . 96632221 1 3 ‘I'ne foregoing reference to fand quotation of rates from Omaha and Grand Island are made to show the great discrimination in favor of Omaha when local rates are con- cerned in the same connection with such rates from Omaha, and to_show how excess- ive the local distance tariff of the said Union Pacific rallway ecompany is ‘when compared to the tariff from Omaha. Complainants pray that you will remove the discrimination 1n said rates above re- ferred to and will reduce the local distance tarifls of the sald Union Pacitic railroad cumuux now in force within the state to a reasonable, just and equitable basis, or at least 663¢ per cent less than the present dls- tance tariff, and for such other and further relief as mav be just and equitable under all circumstances. HoLuisTER & HOWARD. CLANg, OYSTERS AND TURTLES, The members of the Nebraska Clam Bakers association are at Shogo island, in the midst of one of their celebrated bakes that have become such popular features to the membership. Friday evening Presi- dent McBride,.with some twenty others, went to Wilford and pitched the camp, and yesterday twenty-five moro departe for the grounds. Invited guests from Omaha, Crete, Nebraska Cll,! and other oints are in attendance. General Mc- ride was escorted to the front by a mammoth sea turtle that was shipped alive from the coast in company with two barrels of clams and a barrel of oysters. The turtle eyed his escort at the depot as though expecting a lively time BASE BALL. The two reverses that the Lincoln club met in its series of Denyer games, has not dampened the ardor of the club's home" backing and their enthusiasm in search the pennant. The Lincoln club is now at Hastings for three games, and the home ascociation predict three straights for them there. The coming week Omaha will be with Lincoln on the home grounds, and the d ball played by Omaha when Lincoln was lastin that city, Jeads the public to expect some g ames in the coming contest, that will he very largely attended. The home club will arrive Friday. THE CAMPAIGN OPENED. The capital city prolibition club that preaches politics every Sunday afternoon at Temple hali & preparing for ag- ressive campaign work. The club has ued circular letters containing a per- sonul invitation to christian workers and all in sympathy with the prohibition movemeut, to attend the meetings and join in the work, The circular announces he campaign open with both the state and county tickets in the tield. The cir- cular cries out against the indifterence ot ople 1n regard to their personal rela- ri:nl to the reform, announces that able speakers will be listened to, and that in to-day's meeting important action will be taken to enhst church co-operation. PERSONAL NOTES. an Wyck was at Franklin gest erday and returns to his home at Ne- raska City this evening. ; Adjutant General Bates, of Beatrice, was superintending opening work at Camp Thayer yesterday. Dr. Stone, of Wanoo, surgeon general of the state militia, wasexamining appli- eants for company surgeons at the adju- tant general’s office yesterday. Chancellor Manatt, of the state uni- vorsity, who has employed hig vacation in a Kuropean trip, has reached home ngain, Governor Thayer, who has been ab- sent several days at the Norfolk reunion and the national convention of . charities in Omaha, was at home at the capital L yusterday. “Phe assistant secretary of state, Ben R. “owdsy, accowpanied by bis wile, (s In General {fHE OMAHA DAILY BEE: Columbus for over Sunday at their old home. L. C. Burr, who has been on & three weeks’ bear hunt with Judge Brewer and others in the mountains of Wgnmlnl. is at home again, bringing with him the head of a magnificent mountaiu sheep as atrophy of the hunt. The sheriff of Fillmore county was in Lincoln yesterday, bringing with him Henry Rook, the contessed murderer of the two Newers at the Sunday picnic a week ngo. The sheriff concluded from the voluminous threats scattered around that the prisoner was not the safest in the immediate vicinity of the shoolln{g and therefore brought him in for safe keeping, A few nights ago threats were so common of lynching that a large number of Rook's companions in railroad work stayed in Geneva the entire night to be on hand to protect Rook if lynch- ing was attemped, — Read Bennison Bros' ad on 8th page. —_— CHURCH NOTICES. Beth-Eden Baptist Church-Rev. H. L. House pastor. There will be no preaching service. n school at 8 o'clock p.m. At the close of Sunday school a short season of praver and conference will be held. Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. North = Presbyterian Church, Saunders street—Rev. William R. Henderson, pastor, will conduct service a:10:30 a. m. No_even- ing service, Sunday schoolat noon. Young lmulnh‘:l meeting at 6:30 p. m. Strangers made weicome at all the services. Dr. . Byers, of Ohio, will preach at the Seward street M. K. church Sunday morn- ing at 10:30. Rev. J. W. Phelps will” preach and administer the sacrament at 8 o’clock. German Lutheran Church, 1006 South Twentieth street—Service every Sunday at 10a. m, Sunday school at 8 p. m. E. J. Frese, pastor. Park Avenue United Presbyterian Church, corner Park avenue and Grant streets— Preaching by the pastor, } J. A. Hender- son. Morning service at 10:30 . m.; sub- Ject, “Justitication.” Evening service at 8: subject, ““Cuoristian Diligence the True Remedy for Pauperism_and Crime.” Sab- bath school at noon. You are invited. Presbyterian Church, corner Dodge and Seventéenth street—Services at 10:30 a. m. and 8 p.m. Morning preach by the pas- tor, Rev. W. J. Harsha, Evening, Mr. W. Alexander Johnson, of Chicago, member of the convention of fssociated charities, will speak. Subject: ‘‘The Lame Man at the Beautiful Gate,” a plea for personal charity. Sunday school at noon. Young peobles meeting at 7:15 p. m. Unity Church—Seryices will be resumed on Sunday, Septe or 11 Central United Presbyterian church, Sev- enteenth street between Dodgo and Capitol avenue—Services at 10:30 a. m, and 8 p ervices conducted by Rev. J. A. Thompson, Wesulvnt of Tarkio college, 'T'arkio, Mo. ‘eekly prayer meeting on Wednesday even- < ings at 8 o’clock. Young people’s prayer meeting on Sunday evenings at 7:15. All are invited, South-West Presbyterian Church—Corner Leavenworth and ‘l'wenieth streets. Rev. David R. Kerr, pastor. Services at 10:30 a, m. and 8 p. m. Sabbath school at 12 m. Young people's meeting at 6:15 p. m. Gen- eral prayer meetinz, Wednesday at S p. m. Subject, ‘*Common Sense in Religlon.” Youn¢ people’s social Monday evening, Au- gust 29, at church. All invited. All Saints’ Church—Twenty-fifth and How- ard streets—Morning prayer at 11 a. m., even- ing prayer at 7p. m. The Rev. Dean Hart, of St. John’s Cathedral, Deuver, Colo., will preach at both services. Ihe choir will sing *I'he ‘le Deum in F,” by Dykes, and ‘“I'he Jubllats in F,” by Tours, and for in the morning they will sing, “In Thee, O Lord, Have I Put My 'l‘rust,"%)v Tours, and in the evening, ‘‘Grant to Us, Lord,” by Barnby., Take l'.’_ll'llllll and Park avenue cars to Twenty-fifth street or St. Mary's avenue cars to Fairview street. Miss Eliza- beth Pennell will sing at the offertory, “'I Heard the Volce of Jesus,” by Bartlett, Welsh Presbyterian—Seryices will be held Sunday, August 28, in Toft’s hall, on Saun- ders street, near Charles. Preaching at g. m.,, by the Rev. D, Edwards, of Wales, unday school at 2:30 p. m. A full attend- ance 1s requested at the evening services. Hillside Congregational Church, Omaha View—Rev. Dr. Dana, of St. Paul, preaches at 8 p. m. Sunday schiool at 3:30 p. m. First Baptist Church, corner Fifteenthand Davenport streets—Rev. A. W. Lamar, Jms- tor. Preacbing at 10:30 a. m. by Rev. W. L. Brown, of West Plains, Mo. “The church will be used in the evening by tho conference ot charities and corrections. Sabbath school at 12 m. Prayer meeting Wednesday even- ing at 8 p. m. All are cordially invited. Seats free. Waest [Hamilton Streast Presbyterian Church —Preaching services at 8 p.m. Sabbath school at 8 p. m, First Christian church, Twentieth and Capitol avenue—Dr. Koy will preach to-day at ;he usual hours, 10:30 a. m. and 8 p. m. Seats ree. First Congregational Tabornacle—Preach- ing at 10:30 a..m. by Rev. M. Mec. Gi. Dana, D. D., of St. ’aul, Minn., at exposition build- ing. Bible class at 12 m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening. Young people’s society Friday evenings. St. Mary’s avenue Congregational—Rev. Willard Scott pastor. Morning service at 10:30, preaching by Rev. James Tompkins of Chicagzo. No eveningservice. Service every Sunday morning. Hillside Congregational Church—Rev. H. C. Crane, pastor. Dr. C. L Fisher, of the conference ot charities and corrections, will speak at11a. m. Evening service at 8. Park Place Congrezational Suuday School will meet until the chapel is tinished in Guild’s grove at 4 p.mn. Ev-President Holt is the pastor. St. Mark’s Lutheran—Corner of North Twenty-tirst and surdette streets. Rev. George H. Schur, pastor. Church service at 10:30 a, m. and 8 p. m. Sunday school at 9 a. m. Strangers cordially invited. Park Avenue Presbyterian Church—Ser- vices in Soviell's hall, on Leavenworth street, near Phil Sheridan. Morning at 10:30, evening at 8 o'clock, conducted by Rev. John Gordon, pastor. Sunday school at noon. First United Presbyterian, 613 North Eighteenth street, Rev. Edwin 8. Graham, pastor. Public worship at 10:30 a. m. and 8 ». m. Kountze Memorial Lutheran Church, corner of Sixteenth and Harney streets— Rev. J. S. Detweiler, pastor. Chureh ser- vices and preaching by the pastor at 10:80 a. m, and §p. m. anthem All on Account of a Telegram 8t. Louis Globe-Democrat: A novel suit has been filed 1n Judge Read's court in Topeka, Kan. The case is instituted by sixteen young ladies, who sue the Western Union ulnxrnPh company for $300 damages each. The complaint states that owing to the faiture on the part of the company to deliver a message which was to have been sent from Valley Falls to Nortonville in February last, the iZuunz ladies were compelled to walk eight miles to reach the village of Perdue, where they were to give an en- tertainment for the benefit of their church. They were lost, and wandered around over the prairie from 6 o’clock in }ne evening until 20'clock the next morn- ng. i ————— The Funeral Was Uncertain. Boston Couri A lady whois famous among her friends for the correctness with which all her social duties are per- formed, was recently put in_an amuse- ingly awkward position by the stupidity of a servant. A neighbor being danger- ously ill, this lady one morning sent her ma‘d over to inquire concerning her con- dition. “Go over,” said she, ‘“and inquire how Mrs. X. is this morning And if she is dead,"” she added, asthe girl started, “ask when the funeral is to be." The messenger went as directed, snd soon returned with the air of one who has done_her whole dut{. “‘Mry. X. is better this morning," was her report, ‘‘and they cannot teil when the funeral will be," e L Hiram Pauley, of Ehndale, Ill., has a rattlesnake that can be handled with safety. He is brown, with black stripes, nnr{y four feet long, weighs two pounds and two ounces, with several rattles and » button on s tail. Panley says that he dug out his fangs with his mhan»kmh whilo bolding its head in his X BOOMING CITY OF KEARNEY. A Ploasant Trip to a Prosparous and Grow- ing Town. A SUCCESSFUL LAND BSALE, Kearney's Marvelous Growth-A Hos- pitable People—Some Well- Fixed Visitors—Why New York Won't Prosper. [ Written for the Sunday Bee by J. F. Riley.) A sigh of languor and a tinge of gloom were the attributes of the party of dis- tinguished Omahans boarding the parlor oar Smyrna at the Union Pacific last Wednesday night. But whatever the feeling and whatever the causo of the sadness, both mellowed into jest and song and laughter with the first hundred turns of the wheel, and tho traasition was as the mist chased by the sun, or, better still, like the brass band returning from the warrior's funeral to the rollick- ing lilt of phnny, Get Your ( where erstwhile their tread was measured to the solemn strains of Saul's Dead March. The oceasion of the excursion was a visit to Kearney to attend the sale of town lots there, and thirty million wa said to be the sum controlled by the dis- tinguished Omahans for investment. As- sociation with the good or bad purities or corrupts; one accommodates himself to his surroundings; easy familiarity with these Omaha millionaires made the writer wealthy, in his mind, although in his 1nside pocket there were but two blank checks and a theater com pliment- ary. It was a jolly ride with a jolly erowd. ‘The surroundings were luxurious; the or- dinary annoyances of travel were miss- mg. The conductor’s tones were gentle and pleasant and for the nonce he did not insist upon committing assault and battery on the passengers in wild etforts to tag checks to their hatbands, the porter, one Duncan, forgot the usual license of highway robbery assumed by his class, and disinterestedly wished the gentlemen pleasant dreams as he bade them good- night. The driver of cngine 834, with his hand on the throttle lever and his eye fixed in the darkness ahead, sported with space and made time but & number on the schedule slip. At first, conversa- tion wus of railroad and steamboat wrecks, then it turned upon fires and cyclones and finally it drifted into more cheerful channels. Everything but the real business of the trip was talked of and thut was never broached, for each man kept his secret, of both his knowl- edge of operation in buying town lots and the amount of his intended invest- ment. So becnuse there was a sccret each man was suspicious of the other, but pleasant withal, just as two opposing lawyers' grow gracious across the counsel tubie, when each would give a world to know just what the other knows, Out of deference to lhe‘f)mjudiccs of a Suaday school teacher and because there were no cards aboard, poker was not played, but all other pastimes were indulged 1n, Wit bubbled like a widow’s smile. 1t was solemnly promised and formed one of the conditions of his trip that no one was to say ‘‘let her go' in the presence of Postmaster Gallagher, and in acknow- ledgement of the compliment he said that mucilage was worse in its effects than whiskey, because it stuck to one so. There was no necessity for Judge Groff, of the district court, to say when handed a slnsu of water by the writer. that it and the Missouri were alike, riley, but the record stands against him filled and posterity will grow accustomed to his re- mark in its wonder elicited at his need of water. District Attorney Pritchett, by request, volunteered the narrative of some tl:rllliug recollections of his prac- tice, but had only prefaced his stories by announcing as the tirst one, the case of a widow of the eighth husbend, when Emory A. Cobb's declaration that he would like to know “‘the fascin-eighting- ow,” ended the district attorney’s recitals. Lawyer Montgomery observed 1 solace that “you never tind "an attor- ney-at-law,” and B. W. Harbaugh, assist- ant engineer of the Metropolitan railroad, retired to study the cause why, thinking it was a conundrum. A real estate man told me confidentially that a German countess once died with love for_him be- cause of his resemblance to Berlin, I betray not confidence in pronouncing the joke cupital. The feature of the even- ing was Collector Calhoun's rendition of the first stanza of the song. “Did You Ever Hear Tell of Kate Kearney,'' sung to the tune of “The Pretty Maid Milking the Cow," aud the company retired dur- ing its progress. The courteous United States oflicial snored forty other stunzas in the measures of all of Tom Moore's melodies. So the night passed. 1n the forward cars were emigrants, stout hus- bands and loving wives with the bloom of health on their cheeks painted again on the faces of their little ones, and in per- fect peace and poverty fresh from the hold of the steerage, and expressed from Castle Garden, they lay huddled together in dreams of the dav #nd the hour of wealth to be found in the far west of the new world, So in the Smyrna, with more wealth, but who knows if with more peace, slept the millionaires of Omaha, dreaming too of riches, of riches held within ye, oh! hills of Kearney town. % Thirteen years ago the spot where Kearney stands to-day was hidden in the Great American desert. The buffalo and antelope roamed over its wastes and amid alkali rock and sage brush the red devil at that time still sncaked, hunting for his white brother crossing the forty- niner's trail, due south from the city. Well beaten and trodden and scarcely yet grown over is that old trail as if perpetuating in its original form the memory of so many adventurous hearts crossing it in search of gold and finding at last in its end of the’ route but desola- tion, despair, and death. Sixteen miles northward tlows the Platte river in noisy turbulence, a boisterous stream nearly & mile in width and only six inches in depth. An ugly stream, too, full of quicksand and useless, a mere interro- gation point on thalandscape, S“K.fenmfi the designs of Providenee for delaye: fulfilment. Yet in this worthless stream a quick eye saw renpective gain and future use, Its swift current had power, if diverted from its waste, to become sub- serviedt to man's will and to turn the wheel of industry. The hightning was diverted from its vourse, and the Platte above Kearney suffered a like change. ditch dug and the river tapped and lo! the controlled waters meant force to move machinery. Poor Patterson! he wus the pioncer to demonstrate the Kusmbnlitles ot Kearne; the Platte, ut like Morse with his telegraph, practical minds have utilized and proven his discovery. Thus a tritle’ over twelve years ago came George VY. Frank, and, realizing the future results of the K);az unbuilt city of Kearney from the ditch and the rmiver feeding it, slept on a blunket on its prin- cipal street with the nearest habitation ten miles away, and with the coyote's whiue as a lullaby, On the dey follow- ing he bought all the land he could walk over at less than $3 an acre. How it was buiit wnd the exertions employed matters here but little in the resull of Kearney to-day. 1tis o ohi of nearly 6,000 in- llrbll.lu with schools and churches, electric llnll. g and water, with & SUNDAY. mayor and city eouncil to regulate its municipal adk with well-defined strects and handgome drives; in a word, with evel llulll:ft of a thriving city, in- eluding the meek and lowly Chinaman and excluding the Salvation Army. The real welcome of the Kearneyites to the Omaha millionaires must be like the nominative often. in a sentence—under- stood rather than expressed. They had intended the gcodsion as a red letter day in the city’s history. Tagiocal press wes pleased to n{ editorially: Kearney will to-day be_full of strangers from various cities of the Union, called here by the auction sale of lots, to see our water power and city, and to form an acquaintance of our citizens'with the view of enlarging and extending the.business of Kearney. It is well for us to start now and increase our enterprises and industries with new and broader views of business. 1n order to do this propetlv we must keep abreast of the times, and vie with Denver, Lincoln. Omaha, Kansas City and C hicago, and show that we are not backward in the work of interesting and entertaining stran- rs. "ouxm. we not to present the great advan- tages of Kearney to these eentlemen, that they will see them iIn their true light and be induced to assist in the laudable undertak- ing, for the benelit of themselves as well us of Kearney? Let us invest thelr money in enlarging and developing our water-power and manufac- turing Interests, the main and sure way to advance us to greatness, Citizens, think of thisand act. It is said the Omaha party alone represents over thirty millions of capital, while Cinciu- nati, Philadelphia, Chicago, Kansas City, Lincoln, Denver and othar cities have sent men of large views and means to visit us, Let us to-day become a mutual aid society, aiding ourselves, aiding each other and uhi’. ing the strangers within our zates. Alas! for human expectations. The band wagon was there and the carriages were there. The committees were there and the strangers expected were there, and everything went according to sched.: ule, except the rain, Down it cam torrents from u few sullen clouds, b like camels. It was a sad procession moving through the principal streets, in ciosed carriages and rubber coats, like unto a circus audience under umbrellas mn aleaky tent. Onward we rode, how- ever, through the streets and around the artiticial lake, with its pavilion and boats, and on the top of the terraces de- chining towards it were the magic lots for sale, beautiful sites even on a rainy day with a cnill October wind blowing. An amphitheater overlooking the aue- tioneer’s stand had been erected, and everything had a complete business air about it, except the band, which had a habit of wandering away from the pro- ion and hiding in hollows, and then ppearing to break forth with inspirit- ing music in the midst of a speech de- seriptive of the day we celebrated. Drenched and bedraggled with mud, we all saw in working order the overflow from the cunal dug from the Platte river, with its capacity of 1,500 horse power. The spot of location of the Turbine wheels, now under construction, was in- dicated. The reality of the picture of promise was acknowledged, and the sale began on the grounds just us the morn- ing’s storm had given way to a clear afternoon. 5 1 Knowing that tywo blank checks and a theater complimentary would buy noth« ing, and on the aysurance of Juan Boyle that he was s¥arcely sang uine enough to hope that thd lots would double in value m a_couple of hours, which possibility would have epabled me to make a suc- cessful deal before being called uvon to pay any purchase money, 1 left the bid- ders to be yelfed #t by the auctioneer and wandered among the townspeople tor their views and hopes. They were full of expectation. [ Af Kearney ever subsides in 1ts successful hoom it will not b for want of faith in its future €elt by its humblest citizens. To my remark, meant to be of comforting assurancs in conflict with the weather, that New York city was once as(small as Kearney, the boy blacking my boots paralyzed me with the reply “Why, New York won't never amount to muc “No,” inquiringly and too surprised to suy more. w;'' it's too far from Kearney." A purchaser from St. Louis, in an un- guarded moment, dilated on the beauties of Bierstadt’s sunsets. Ho was checked at once by the assurance thut the sun set. but in one place in the world, just be- hind the lake at Kearney. “When do you expect the factories to locate here?”’ asked an ianvestor from Lincoln."” “To-morrow, next day, the week after next; they are coming by the thousands,” came the booming chorus in answer to his question. e The sale was nsuccess, realizing over $27,000 as the duy’s total. The lots sold numbered 200 and the average price was $136, The highest purchaser was A, P, Martin, of Lincoln, who backed his hopes in hearney's future by the expenditure of $7,830. Among the group of men yell- ing their bids was a lady, onesolitary fe- male, Mrs. Nettie L. Cronkhite, of Hast- ings, who without a tremor staked § as her act of faith in the building sites, I stop the press to say that a more intelli- gent bidder was not upon the grounds. The following is a list of the purchasers, with their residences, and the amounts of their purchases as have been thus far ac- counted for: A. M. Richards, of Florida. ... Louis 8. Irvin, of Kearney, Neb. Nettie L. Cronkhite, of Hastings, Nel George K. Pritchett, of Lincoln, Neb. J. R. MeKeig, of Syracuse. Neb 205 J. J. Imhoft, of Lincoln, Neb J. L. Keck, of Cincinnatl, O.. Hon. Wm. H. Holt. of Frankfort, Ky 8, I, Calboun, of Omaha, Neb. A. E. Aitken, of Kearney, Neb. George B, Collier, of Philadelphia, Pa. E. J. Woolworth, of Kearnoy, Neb 525 A’ ', Martin, of Lincoln, Neb. ... E. L. Bellinger, of Galesburg, Lil.. f. L. Stout, of Lincoln, Neb... ceee 633 o ‘Tisdell, of Kearnev, Neb. 5% H. G, Clarke, of Omaha, Neb 280 G. W. Stamm, of Albia, la,. 150 E. H. Cushman, of Lincoln, Nel 110 Col. D°P. Hyde, ot Lincoln, Neb.. 150 ‘Thomas Fitzzerald, of Lincoln, Neb 675 C. B. Bessie, ot Kearney, Neb 450 G J. Carponter, of Fairbury, N el W. C. Schaffer, of Kearney, Neb. H. J. Allen, of Kearney, . J. T, O'Brien, of Kearney, Neb. Will J. Scout, of Kearney, Neb E. E, Mctntyre, of Union, la... J. 8. Harringtan, of Kearnev, E. P, ‘Tufts, of Kegrney, Neb. H. R. Haldernan, of hnrne{. H. R Woodward, of Peoria, IlI " There is ne pam withont its compen- sating pleasure. Neither the wintry wind nor the summer#ain could chill the hos- pitalities of, the Kearneyites to the stranger within their gates. Private houses were thrown open for public en- tertainment, 4nd If the investers in town lots were imprebsed with the value of their purchases, they were equally pleased with the social surroundings, intelligence and culture eyerywhere visible. Several companies of the famous Seventh cavalry, which will be' remembered as the prin pal in Sitting Bull's massacre, were en- camped on an open plaza above the town, taking a temporary rest, enroute for Fort Riley. Consequently the gilt shounlder strap and brass buttons of the officers mingiing with the plain dress of the civil- ians, lent & picturesque air to the scene. Juan Boyle entertained a goodly number of the guests to dinner in his spacions residence. Among the number were General Forsythe and Major Whitside. Mrs. Boyle, who was formerly one of the belles of Washington society, presided at the entertainment and the soldiers forgot the army and camp, while the purchasers grew careless of their day's investment und nearly lost the returning train, in admiration of the tact and beanty of the hostess. The recollection of the day to each and all will ever be a pleasant memory. What the future will develope for Kear- ney no man knows. Faith in its increase is us sfrong as the hopes sent out with AUGUST 8. 1887.~TWELVE PAGES, 5 . the years are potent, the BEE can do no more than to add in its charity its wishes that all may realize in full the expecta’ tions formed of them, the riches held within ye, oh nills of Kearney-town. —cee Read Bennison Bros. ad on 8th page. pinddel- sy BIG IRON COMBINATIONS. Development of the Iron Ore Fields of the Northwest. Concerning the recent purchase of iron ore fields in the northwest by eastern and western capitalists, the Bulletin of the American Iron and Steel Association makes the following publication, after careful investion: The rapid development of the new Ver- milion and Gogebic iron ore fields in the northwest, is one of the most remarkable incidents of this remarkable industrial era, Shipments of ore from both these fields were first made in 1884, and in 1836 they unitedly shipped over 1,000,000 tons. This year's shipment will probably ag- regate 1,500,000 tons, notwithstanding the difficulty procuring lake transpor- tation. Nearly all the ore which these districts have produced was of first-class Bessemer quality, with this physical dif- ference, huwever, that the Vermilion ores are hard while the Gogebic ores are soft, the former resembling those of the Mar- quette district, and the latter those of the Menominee di: The two new districts, each of which has now been thoroughly explored, contain immense supplies of Bessemer ores, which will probably not be exhausted for bundreds of vears, While this country p aad phenomenal deposi o ores in the Marquette and Menominee ranges prior to the development of the Vermillion and Gogebic districts, it must be regarded as ». most fortunate circum- stance for our great Bessemer steel indus- try that these new sources of supply were discovered and developed at a time when it became clearly manifest that the coun- try would annually require in the future a much larger supply of Bessel steel than it had previously consumed. If these new fields had not been opened Bessemer ores, both foreign und domestic, would have risen to exorbitant prices during the past two years, Not less remarkable, perhaps, than the oxtent and richness of the new north- western ore fields is the formation of powerful combinations of capital to se- cure their control and to mine_and _ship their ores. In May last the Vermillion mines passed into the hands of a com- vany of eastern and westera capitali which paid for them aud for a short line of railroad, $6,250,000. Mr. H. H. Porter and Mr. Jay C. Morse, of the Union Steel company of Chicago, sre members of this company. A large number of the (ogebic mines have just been purchased by two companics, each representing a large amount of capital, one of them also adding to its possessions three of the neighboring Menominee mines. All the particulars of these recent large transac- tions have not transpired, but we give such as have been published and we have been able to verify. The Lake Superior Consolidated Iron company is the tirst of the large Gogebic companies. It represents a capital of $10,000,000, and contrels eleven Gogebic mines and three mines in the western end of the Menominee range. Ex-Sena- tor Willlam Windom is the president of this oom)mn[; Jesse R. Grant s secr tary, and Hon. Richard A. Elmer treusurer. All the Gogebic mines of this country produce Bessemer ore, but the ores of its Menominee mines are outside the Bessemer limit, two of them produc- ing a first class foundry iron, and the other producing & good quality of mill iron. The Brier Hill Iron and Coal company, of Youngstown, is a member of this company. The second of the large Gogebic companies is the Bessemer Con- solidated Iron company. It represents a capital of $7,500,000, and controls tive of the Gogebic mines, all of which pro- duce Bessemer ore. Ex-Senator Stephen W. Dorsey is president, Hon. Charles E. Coon is treasurer, and Jesse R. Grant is secretary. These two large companies are supplemented in the control of all the valuable Gogebic iron-ore mines by the Wisconsin Central Railroad company, which owns the big Colby and the Ash- land mines, by the firm ot Moore. Ben- jamin & Co,, which owns the Aurora mine, and by various interests which own the Norrie and four other mines. The principal Gogebic mines which have been purchased by the Lake Super- ior Consolidated company are the Kaka- gon, Nimigon, Bessemer, Sunday Lake and Iron Chief. The Menomince mines which it secures are the Florence, Youngstown and Iron River. The prin- cipal mine purchased by the Bessemer Consolidated company is the Iron King. ‘The value of the (zogebic ores appears to be fully attésted by the fact that 250,000 tons have been contracted forto go to the furnaces of the Edgar Thomson steel works this year. An_important accompaniment of the organization of the two large consoli- dated companies mentioned is the simul- tancous creation of the Great Lakes Steamship company, with a capital of $1,000,000, which will at once construct a fleet of fifteen iron freight steamers of 2,500 to 3,000 tons Lurden each, which wil! be exclusively engaged in carrying the iron ore of these companies to points of consumption or distribution on the lower lakes. The steamship company has en- tered into contract with both the large ore companies for tive years ata fright rate of §1.50 per ton. The present price 18 $2.25, but much higher rates have been paid this year and also in 1886. The offi- cers of this company are as follows: J. G. Butler, jr., president; Hon. Charles E. Coon, treasurer, and V. W. C. Wheeler, secretuary. Such are the leading outlines of the most extensive iron-ore operations this country has ever witnessed. The Ver- milion and the Gogebic enterprises are in the hands of business men who are sustained by abundant capital and who mean to mine and ship the ores which they control. Wae are glad to chronicle the fact that the much-talhed-about and really valua- ble Gogebic mines are all now ‘in good hauds and out of the hands of mcre speculators, Our futnacemen and steel manufacturers are now guaranteed an abundantsupply of Bessemer ores for countless years to come, and at reason- able prices, for the competition of the various northwestern districts will secure this resuit. Now let our Lake Superior iron-ore friends at once make arrangements to deliver their ores at Buffalo as well as at Cleveland and Ashtabula, and thus get a little nearer to the furnaces and steel works of the east, Our eastern furnace men and Bessemer steel manufacturers will be glad to buy their ores in prefer- ence to foreign ores if they will only put their prices low enough and reduce to a minimum the distance which they must be hauled by rail. By making arrange- ments for return cargoes of anthracite coal it will be possible to secure very low freight rates by rail for ore from Buffalo to eastern Pennsylvania. Lake ores ha ve for many years been used at Johns- to wn 1y large quantities,and the distance from Buflalo to the upper Susquehanna, the Schuykill and the Lehigh valleys is very little greater than from Cleveland to Johnstown. The Lake Superior ore producers can never again be at the mercy of the vessel owners as they have been this year and last. New markets for their ores will soon be wanted. have pointed out one direction in which they may profitably be found. In ndnf‘i’non to the large amount of pur- chase money involved in this operation the new company, it is understood, will advance 5:5..'»00.300, which will be used for further developing the property. L el ny Read Bennison Bros. ad on 8th page, OMAIXX ] Medical & Surgical Institute N. W. Cor. I3th street and Capitol Avenue, Omaha, Neb. Permanently Established, Reliable, Responsit Established for the Treatinent of all Chron 4 13th STREET AND CAPITOL AVENUE. Jd W. McMENAMY, M. D, C.M. COE,AM.M.D. ISAAC SINCLAIR, M.D. ] Designing persons, taking advantage of our reputation, are eo stantly starting bozus Medical Establishments to deceive stra o Visiting tho city. Thoso protende: ally disnppoar in & Tew weoks. Bewaro of them, or their runne Tho Omaha Medicaland Surgical Tnstitute is the only estublished Medical Institute in Omaha, which has attended us in the past in effecting eures wi thers have failcd is th of our skill and ability, and our standing and reputation among business men {8 th of our intogrity and responsibility . Though wo have thousands of iotters and testimonials from patients, we do not publish them —first, because it is considerod unprofessioanl; second, wo never use the numes of patients as refercnco, either in books, papers, elreuinrs or conv tion. Wedo business on our merits and skill, bolioving that the magnitude of our business, our superior advantuges, reputation and 6x- perience, places us beyond suspicion or the necosaity of publishing tostimonials, We invite all rospond with or visit us beforo takinge mont eisewnere, belloving that A visit or consu will convinee any intelligent person that it 18 to their advantage to place themsolves undor our care: that we huve suporior wdvant:ices and factlitios for treating apoctl utation, should diseases, which, combined with oud acknowledged ability, experionco and e mako our Instituto the first cholco The Commercinl Record, sy Dr. McMenamy, the proprietor of the Omaha Medical ln& tute, is beyond a doubt one of tho most akillful speciniiats in_tho western states, and is well fit by nature, education and experience to fill the responsibie position which he occupics. In th nd disouses of the urinary and soxual organs (private disof he probably has no superor in the United States. We personally know him to be reliable respousible, DISEASES OF WOMEN Treated caretully, exilitully and sclentifcally by the latost and most anproved mothods. Dr. Mo. Maonamy has for yoars devoted a large portion of his time to the study and treatment of thig oInss of disenses, and haa spared neither time nor money to perfect himself, and ia fully supplied with every instrument, applinnce and remody of value in this dopartment of medicine and sur gory, Separate Consultation Rooms and Parlors for Ladies. Book on Diseases of Women, Free. CATARRH. And all diseases of the throat treated by Compressed Alr, Sprays, Medicated Vapors, otc., appled by means of the lutest inventions in apparatus for that purpose. PILES CURED OR NO PAY. 3 By a Safe, Palniess and Certain Operation, Private Disease Department. The Only Relsable Medical Institute malking a spectalty of PRIVATE DISEASES OF THE URINARY AND SEXUAL ORGAN Caused by Overwork, or Worry, the Indiscretions of Youth, or oxcesses of ripor years, or what- ever may tend to lower tho tono of life's vital forcos, cuusing norvous and physien! dobil exnaustion, sominal weaknoss or incontinenoce munrmnlflrrhu-l)‘ and promature decay, follo! by the lung train of symptoms which the sufferer knows but too well, are cured by OuF new res torative treatment, renowing vitality and vigor, and restoring vital, physical and mental A “Tho treatment of thig cinss of disenses has until vory rocontly been meglected by solentifio educated physicians, and has beon in the handu of Patont Modicine vondors and ignorant men claiming to hiave oné medicine that was aspecitic and would ouro overy case. Many are still imposed upon by offers to guarantee oures or give large sums of raoney if's fallure i made. All intelligent persons know that those are simply traps to catch the unwarys Though these dovices have boon ropeatedly expoud by nowspupers, viotims are stili to_ be found, Wo know that thousands suffering from tho effects of theso vicos have been disappointed 80 often that thoy arc digoouraged and huve almost given up hope of ever belng cured. To all suok wo dosire ta say that so long 0s they continue to experiment with specitic romedies or appliand ropresented to cure such disenses, they ure likely to meet with nothing but disappointm two casos are oxactly ailke and no'one romedy hig ever beon or ovor cau be propared (o meot ¢ requirements of all. Wo have made & carefulstudy of thuso diseases in all their various 10 and complications, and with tho aid of almogt unimited oxperienco in adopting treatment 10 fns dividual cases, we are onable to curo after others have utterly failod. We wero among the first to mako & specinity and study of this olass of disonses, and to troat them upon scientific firinciples. We also treat Strict leet and Varicolelo. All contagiots and blood disensos , from whatever cause produced, lly treated. Wo can remove syphs fliticpolson _from the system without mercury, or Injury to the system. All communications confidential. Call ana’consiilt us or send namo and postofice address, plainly written, and enclose stamp, and we will you in pluin wrapper, our BOOK TO MEN, Upon Private, Special and Norvous Disonses, Beminal Wonkness, Spormatorhaa, Tmpot Syphilis, Gonorrheea, Gleet, and all disenses of the Genito-Urinary Orguns, or scnd h -ww your case for an opinion. Porsons unable to Visit us may bo tr instruments sent by matl or express, s contents or sender. One personal int! accommodation of patients. ted at tholr homos, by corrospondence. Modicines urely packed from observation, no marks to indi view proferred if convenient. Rooms and board for the The Physicians and Surgeons of the OMAHA MEDICAL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE— Drs. McMenamy, Coe and Sinclair—will, In the Future, Visit Patients in All Parts of the City Day or Ni; *In tho pust wo have boen abliged to rofuse to do general practico and visit pationts ut theie homes, but, as we have made arrangoments to add to our staff of physicians, we shall be able to answer all ealls in the city or country. OUR OFFICE IS OP one or more physi in hospital and priv shall bring our unit under our care, Wi inteuigent, thinking person. EN DAY AND NIGHT. cinns may bo calied without delay. Wo have had years of oxporionos practice, and in the troatment of all kinds and claases of disorsos, afd bility, knowledge and onerey to the aid of every Invalid piaced dent that our aavantuges and our success will commend us to overy No Physician, however well educated he may be, can do justice to his pie tients unless he is in possession of the latest inventions in Med ical, Surgical and Electrical Apparatus. OUR OFFICE AND CONSULTATION gooms Contain s complete lumulyMaf Surgical Instruments, Applinncos for Examining Disensos, Eae Speculum, Ovhthalmiscopes, Microscopes, Now Apparatus for Applying Electricily or Magnote ism, New and improved Vaporizer Inhaler, Atomizer, Bte. In fact, tho fincst and most valuable e e\ lom of Medioal, Suriieal and Anatomionl AppAFatS to bo Tound in any Hospitals INAPIAEY or Medical lnstitute in the country. SURGERY. 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